Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:53:22 +0100 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.sites.mk Message-ID: <20060321235322.GH897@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20060321221810.GA963@k7.mavetju> References: <200603211540.k2LFeQ4T055581@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060321164420.GA16788@xor.obsecurity.org> <44202EA9.40603@FreeBSD.org> <20060321221810.GA963@k7.mavetju>
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--NzX0AQGjRQPusK/O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2006.03.22 09:18:10 +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > I think that, even with the existence of MASTER_SORT (which usage > is not documented in the bsd.port.mk header, and which usage is not > documented in the porters handbook), this is a much easier solution > which will help a big group of users which have absolutely no idea > how to use awk but are stuck with slow downloads from heanet. Even > I use it now. You don't have to know awk to use MASTER_SORT, it's actually very simple. This is from my make.conf: MASTER_SORT?=3D .dk sunet.se .se dk.php.net .no .de mirrorservice.org \ .uk .at heanet.dl.sourceforge.net .nl And yes, this know is very underdocumented and somebody(tm) should do something about that. AFAIR I found out how to use it by reading some NetBSD docs and the bsd.port.mk implementation. --=20 Simon L. Nielsen --NzX0AQGjRQPusK/O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEIJHyh9pcDSc1mlERAk0DAJ9oHdZx7ZhxZRoj1rRfAYvBl/dqBgCgx5ow 8HUcxhXpAvhVvvEIc5akvZ4= =2lWn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NzX0AQGjRQPusK/O--
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